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| 9d21834 | Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present ... Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. | housework sisyphus | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| eb97adf | She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers. | cleaning housework relaxation home | Jane Smiley |